linguoboy wrote:It varies a lot by region. Possibilities include tatws stwns or tatws mwtrin in the North, tatws stwmp in central Wales and tato potsh in South.

Llith is the kind of mash fed to livestock.

Dw i'n gweld.

linguoboy wrote:What do you put in your tatws stwns?

Oes dim "fy nhatws stwns". (Is that wrong?) If I had hypothetical mashed potatoes, I would probably put halen on them. That's what I do with the regular kind.

linguoboy wrote:[snip] Some people add cabetsh, but I prefer corwinwyn.

UWTSD couldn't find matches for either of the words you referenced. They're obviously not mutated or part of a phrase, so we can rule that out. The first word looks to be "cabbage", but I can't be certain. Please clarify this.

linguoboy wrote:[snip] Some people add cabetsh, but I prefer corwinwyn.

UWTSD couldn't find matches for either of the words you referenced. They're obviously not mutated or part of a phrase, so we can rule that out. The first word looks to be "cabbage", but I can't be certain. Please clarify this.

Looks like the UWTSD dictionary prefers the form cabetsen. They don't list corwinwyn, which means "chives".

Sorry, but I'm afraid neither I nor UWTSD understood that. I think I'll have to switch into English. I can't guess what dywyll iawn or defnyddia'r tortsh might be, and I'm now confused as to who we're talking about. You've been referencing the dog as "he", but in the above post you're referring to an unknown "she" and that has me stumped.

linguoboy wrote:Beth wyt ti'n ceisio dweud?

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what I said works in either language. I meant something to the effect of "there are no 'my mashed potatoes'" or "I never have/eat mashed potatoes".

linguoboy wrote:Looks like the UWTSD dictionary prefers the form cabetsen. They don't list corwinwyn, which means "chives".

Sorry, but I'm afraid neither I nor UWTSD understood that. I think I'll have to switch into English. I can't guess what dywyll iawn or defnyddia'r tortsh might be, and I'm now confused as to who we're talking about. You've been referencing the dog as "he", but in the above post you're referring to an unknown "she" and that has me stumped.

Welsh has no "it", so when there's need for a dummy subject, it uses hi.

You don't need to guess what tywyll iawn means, you can simply look it up.

Defnyddia is defnyddio with the imperative ending -a. As for tortsh, say it aloud and the meaning should be obvious.

Tikolm wrote:

linguoboy wrote:Beth wyt ti'n ceisio dweud?

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what I said works in either language. I meant something to the effect of "there are no 'my mashed potatoes'" or "I never have/eat mashed potatoes".

linguoboy wrote:Welsh has no "it", so when there's need for a dummy subject, it uses hi.

Oh, yeah. I would probably have figured this out if I'd managed to figure out the rest of the sentence, but thanks for pointing it up.

linguoboy wrote:You don't need to guess what tywyll iawn means, you can simply look it up.

I did, but I made the mistake of looking up the mutated form. We all know where that gets you.

linguoboy wrote:Defnyddia is defnyddio with the imperative ending -a. As for tortsh, say it aloud and the meaning should be obvious.

"Torch", I assume. You're sure that's a Welsh word? But in any case, my main complaint is that the bed might, you know, mynd ar y tân. (Edit: That is, unless you didn't mean "torch" when you said "torch". I hear that it can also mean "flashlight", which is a much more sensible thing to use here.)

linguoboy wrote:Yeah, that's a pretty awkward phrasing.

"I never eat mashed potatoes" = Dw i byth yn bwyta tatws stwns.

That works? It looks like it should mean "I ever eat mashed potatoes", but I guess nobody would say that.

linguoboy wrote:Wyt ti ddim yn hoffi tatws stwns? Pam?

Dydw i ddim wedi dweud yr yna. (If that didn't make sense, I meant "I haven't said that [I don't like mashed potatoes]".)

linguoboy wrote:Defnyddia is defnyddio with the imperative ending -a. As for tortsh, say it aloud and the meaning should be obvious.

"Torch", I assume. You're sure that's a Welsh word? But in any case, my main complaint is that the bed might, you know, mynd ar y tân. (Edit: That is, unless you didn't mean "torch" when you said "torch". I hear that it can also mean "flashlight", which is a much more sensible thing to use here.)

The Welsh word for "torch" in the sense of "burning stick" is ffaglen. The UWTSD dictionary doesn't give a translation for "torch" in the sense of "flashlight", but the BBC Welsh dictionary does.

Tikolm wrote:

"I never eat mashed potatoes" = Dw i byth yn bwyta tatws stwns.

That works? It looks like it should mean "I ever eat mashed potatoes", but I guess nobody would say that.

It works just like French, n'est pas?

Tikolm wrote:

linguoboy wrote:Wyt ti ddim yn hoffi tatws stwns? Pam?

Dydw i ddim wedi dweud yr yna. (If that didn't make sense, I meant "I haven't said that [I don't like mashed potatoes]".)

You can't say *yr yna. The word for "that" in reference to something abstract (like a clause) is hynny.